What's happening in your garden today?

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Found today my Succulents don't like April Showers, all the others it's like a New Fast Acting Fertilizer.

Succulents went back to the Greenhouse.

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[Logan]

Cut off some of the old hellebore flowers in a border and weeded there, the ground is still dry there so I'll water the polyanthus that's there.

 

[Sean Regan]

Didn't get into the garden until mid-afternoon, as there was shopping to get first.
Why is it when you just go out for, "just a few bits," when you come home and up the receipts, it comes to over £100?

Anyway, this celosia caracas "followed me home," from Asda.
At £6, it was quite reasonable. I must remember to put it somewhere frost free in the winter.




Just the usual tying up of more clematis and I gave everything a really good watering, we haven't had rain for days.

 

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Mostly played in Worm poop.

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[Meadowlark]

Robbing potatoes. I start robbing new potatoes just after the seed potatoes bloom and continue to the final harvest. Our blooms this year started about three weeks ago. This effectively extends my enjoyment of fresh potatoes by several weeks. A small price to pay for fresh new potatoes.

Today, wife requested I rob a few extra for tomorrow's guests and of course I obliged. With three weeks to go until harvest, these are the best "robber" potatoes I have ever raised averaging 11 ounces per new potato}. The production looks to be off the charts for the reds...didn't rob any whites today.

At about 15-17 pounds of new potato per pound of seed potato, this will be a bumper harvest. Very pleased with this result so far...but with three weeks to go Nature can have a significant say in the final outcome.

All potatoes are left as is from the ground to preserve flavor until it is time to prepare them for consumption.

 

[Sheal]

That's a healthy looking harvest you have there.

 

[Sheal]

I've been spraying weeds. I try to keep the use of weedkiller to a minimum but the 'to do list' in my home of 9 months doesn't seem to be getting any shorter at the moment. The gravel drive and stone walls have been spot weeded and I've had to use it on some weeds that are running roots and taking over. When things settle down I'll be back to using a garden border fork.

 

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Repotted couple plants for another guy.

My Marigolds and Zinnias are coming up.

Picked 4 Wine Cap Mushrooms probably have more tomorrow.

Got my Bulbs in for my Cannas soon as I can get them in the ground.

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